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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Texas fracker turned escort says repression allowed business to flourish

The poster of the documentary podcast The Handyman of West Texas depicts a woman holding a hammer in front of a buff man wearing a white tank top and a tool belt.
Poster for the documentary podcast The Handyman of West Texas. Illustration: Johnathan Walton/Courtesy of Johnathan Walton

A western Texas fracker starring in a podcast about how his attempted moonlighting as a handyman turned into lucrative sex work largely solicited by distracted oil industry professionals’ housewives says he believes his region’s repressive sexual attitudes gave his side gig an opening to flourish.

“There’s an inherent kind of self-denial,” the subject of The Handyman of West Texas, identified only as Mickey, said in a recent interview. “We all have these thoughts. But we lie to ourselves and try to conform to … how you’re supposed to be repressing your own pleasure.”

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